Marauders have ridiculous DPS, 1v1 you won't lose versus any class, so long as you use your cooldowns smart. Make sure you use all your bleeds, and keep them ticking. Use your counter attack (it ignores GCD and lowers cooldown on cloak of pain) make sure you are using Saber Ward, and Cloak of Pain. At 24 you get Choke, which you -really- need for interrupts, also gives you 3 seconds to let your bleeds kill, or stop a sorc/sage from running away like a little hobag. Ravage is good, but remember when you're using it, you -can- be interrupted until you spec the points into it.

Also, Annihilation is the only Marauder spec you should look at till 50.

Mara's get out DPSed by DPS Juggs at 50 so it's a moot point that they do high damage since so do other classes.

I pull around 300-400k in t2 pve gear in huttball. Mauraders can put a ton of damage out if you play them right, and spec them right.

1v1 they are arguably the best class. When you 5 hit a sith sorc is when you fall in love with the class.

You should be able to level through this game with any class easily.....If this is not the case, then YOU are doing something wrong....It's VERY rare that it's a class problem.

Level easily yes but every class has certain bosses who are very tough even if you do everything properly.

Gonna put this out there, my Rage Juggernaut AoE crits everyone for 5k damage in PvP (Level 45)... I'm not unbalanced. I promise